Facility-Specific Incident Response Settings for Controller Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing control devices in production sites, such as factories, face challenges in ensuring facility-specific incident response operations, leading to potential safety issues and economic damage due to uniform incident response settings across different facility types.
Innovation Solution
A support device connected to a controller system that allows for easy selection and setting of facility-specific incident response operations by classifying facility types based on control purposes and demands, using a selection module to choose the appropriate facility type and a setting module to reflect pre-defined response rules, enabling flexible and minimal necessary response settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a common incident response operation is uniformly set for the control device regardless of the facility type, then the setting process is simplified, but safety cannot be ensured or significant economic damage occurs depending on the facility type
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments incident response operations by facility type, creating distinct response configurations for different facilities (e.g., power plants, chemical plants, manufacturing plants). This segmentation allows each facility type to have customized safety-critical responses while maintaining a standardized framework for non-critical operations, thus resolving the contradiction between operational simplicity and safety assurance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating incident response operations based on facility-specific characteristics. Safety-critical facilities receive enhanced response protocols while non-critical facilities use standard protocols. This localized customization ensures appropriate safety levels for each facility type without requiring complete customization across the board, balancing simplicity and reliability.
2Reliability
If incident response operation is set according to the facility type, then safety can be ensured, but it imposes a heavy burden on a developer
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring incident response operations for various facility types before deployment. The system includes pre-defined response templates and configurations that developers can select and apply, eliminating the need to create custom responses from scratch. This reduces setting complexity while maintaining facility-specific safety requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by allowing developers to replicate and adapt pre-configured incident response templates for similar facility types. Once a response configuration is established for a particular facility type, it can be copied and modified for other facilities of the same type, significantly reducing the burden on developers while ensuring consistent safety standards across similar facilities.
3Reliability
If facility-specific incident response settings are implemented, then appropriate safety protection is achieved, but the setting process becomes more complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing incident response configurations for common facility types. These pre-configured templates include safety-critical responses, notification protocols, and operational procedures that are ready for immediate deployment. This eliminates the need for time-consuming custom configuration while ensuring facility-specific safety requirements are met.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universality by creating a multi-functional incident response system that can serve multiple facility types through a standardized framework. The system uses universal configuration templates that can be applied across different facility types with minimal customization, reducing setting time while maintaining appropriate safety protection for each facility type through selective activation of specific response protocols.
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AI summary
A support device is connected to a controller system that controls a control target. The controller system can execute an incident response operation of changing a behavior in accordance with an incident that may occur in the controller system. The support device includes a selection module and a setting module. The selection module receives selection of a facility type corresponding to the control target among plural facility types which is preset. The setting module reflects a response rule corresponding to the selected facility type in the controller system by referring to a response rule that is prepared in advance for each of the facility types and defines a behavior for an incident.